* on Saturday, 2019-10-19 05:24 -0700, Andrew Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
> No rebuilding necessary if the conflicts are changed to just 'sh'.
A circular dependency may not even be necessary in many cases, or ever. All
the circular dependency does is force the user to install as provider (by
requiring a link package) the first time one of the alternatives is installed.
But a user may not want or need to install a provider until other packages
depend on it. Then the solution would simplify to just a set of mutually
exclusive link packages:
sh-bash
provides=('sh')
depends=('bash')
conflicts=('sh')
sh-dash
provides=('sh')
depends=('dash')
conflicts=('sh')
And pacman luckily finds alternative providers very easily:
# pacman -Ss '\bawk\b'
core/gawk 5.0.1-1 (base base-devel) [installed]
GNU version of awk
extra/nawk 20180827-1
The one, true implementation of AWK
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